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Cruz: On His Knees to Stop Gay Marriage

Sen. Ted Cruz made quite an impression on that big group of evangelical Christian pastors he met with in Iowa recently on the first stop of his “I’m not running for president, wink wink” tour. He encouraged those pastors to mobilize their congregations to get on their knees to prevent gay marriage from becoming a reality:

“On marriage there is no issue in which we need to be more on our knees because the momentum is with the opponents of traditional marriage,” Cruz said. “We’re facing an assault on marriage.”

He scolded “unelected judges” who think “we know better” on marriage, and urged pastors to “to speak to your congregations and to mobilize the people, and mobilize them more than anything to pray.”

Oh, yeah, there’s no other issue that could possibly be more important to pray about than stopping people who love each other from marrying because they happen to be the same gender. Disease? Famine? War? Child abuse? Petty issues all before the evil of t3h gay.

Hopefully, he can convince his audience that prayful intervention is the only response and that, for the next presidential election, they should attend prayer rallies instead of voting. They need to embrace the notion that voting shows lack of faith.

Odd…wasn’t it just last year that these guys were bragging about how they’d never lost at the ballot box when SSM was on the ballot?

But then, every time they start in on “defending traditional marriage”, I want to cite so *real* traditional marriage types that would probably shock them into speechlessness. And, of course, if they think ‘marriage is forever’, why aren’t they lobbying to eliminate divorce?

Hey, I’m totally in favor of wingnuts like Cruz telling their supporters to pray to stop marriage equality, because we all know how effective that action will be. Pray away wingnuts, pray all you want. It’s the other actions Cruz and other Teabaggers might encourage their followers to take that worry the f*ck out of me. Losing graciously does not seem to be in their DNA, and I am very concerned about violent backlash when the judicial and legislative avenues close to them.